Out with Old & in with the New

2011

Happy New Year!!!

Trust in the LORD with all your heartand lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him,and he will direct your paths.
Proverbs 3: 5-6

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can;and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with HimForever in the next.Amen.
--Reinhold Niebuhr

God bless you in the New Year and Always! Cheers!!

MeRRy CHRISTmas!!

Happy Birthday Jesus!!! Thank you for sharing this wonderful day with us! We celebrate you!

All ready for the boys come morning!

Santa brought the boys some cool rides. This was right after Matt came running in the room shouting at us to come see what Santa brought them. LoL!

Before any presents were opened, Justin read the passage in the Bible of Jesus' Birth so they truly understand what Christmas is really all about. Santa may bring presents but Jesus is the King and today is His birthday. They know this, but always important to have the boys stop and say thank you to God.The "Oh" face!!! hahahaha.. i love itWould you say spoiled rotten or very blessed kids?ha! that gun is huge compared to him!
My friend Tammy made this quilt for me! I love it! Ive never had a quilt ! So beautiful! I am so incredibly blessed having such a sweet friend as her! She is so kind! Thank you Tammy! I love it ♥Playing outside on his new 360And Matt on his new SlitherWhat a wonderful Christmas!! So relaxing! As I'm posting this, rain has now come along and I just love it! Smells soo good! What a beautiful ending to a wonderful day! Thank you Jesus! We love you! Happy Happy Birthday!

CHRISTmas EvE

Christmas Eve was a busy day!!! Full of fun and Family! First went out side and played with some cool toys they got.

Then went to Aunt Chery's and Uncle Lee's. Lea, Brittany and Bret got a sweet go kart for Christmas and they were nice and let us go for a ride. Here Justin and Matt doing donuts.
Bret & LukeLee and Matt. I love Lee's face in this! LoL!! I can just imagine what noise he's making... pretty sure it's the typical boy noise of what a go kart noise makes... "Vrrooooooooooom"!!! haha! Then later that eve we went to Aunt Ruth and Uncle Mike's for the Weidenkopf family Christmas eve dinner! So much fun! Erin and the kids were able to make it too! So nice to see everyone! here the kiddos are out putting Reindeer food on the grass. Charlie & Luke.
Ella & Genevieve Most of the Weidenkopf cousins and grandkids. A few Aunts. Opening up presents! Guys having guy talk
So much fun and we were once again spoiled rotten! thank you everyone for all the nice gifts! You are too kind!

CHRISTmas @ MoM N DaD's

Christmas at Mom & Dad's Thursday night! What a fun and relaxing evening filled with family and love and lots of toys and food! By far one of the most relaxing and enjoyable family Christmas'!! All of us kiddos were there! First we ate ALOT of delicious food and the boys played with Legos and toys. Then we opened presents !!! We were all very spoiled and blessed! Then we enjoyed a warm camp fire outside and eachothers company. Weather couldn't have been any prettier!

Pretty Momma with her new Coach purse! So pretty!
OOOOOhhhhh!!! what is it! An aquarium! thanks Andrea.. now we get to go fishy shopping!Gma & Gpa and Laura... well.. I have no idea what she is looking at but i guess it's just the look of "I'm with the In laws" LOL!! j/k Laura!! we love you!
What a fun Christmas!! Thanks Mom N dad for hosting!!!

Candy Land At Charlene's!!

My sweet neighbor Charlene offered her home to all us neighbors with kiddos and she fed us breakfast! She is an amazing cook! She won this awesome candy land themed Christmas tree and made her room Candy Land themed as well! she bought lots of Candy and let the kids get a small box and fill it with lots of candy!!! How cool is that!

that was too nice Charlene! thank you! Then after we left Charlenes.. all of my sweet neighbors went and volunteered their time and decorated one of our neighbors house with Christmas lights since she is physically unable to do it. I have got the BEST neighbors in the world!!

auntie Cheryls famous Ginger bread houses

Yearly tradition of going to Auntie Cheryls and decorating her awesome ginger bread houses she makes from scratch!

in process

Matt's ginger bread house
mine
Luker dukesMalia, Brittany, Me and silly Lilly
Beautiful Malia Lilly would shove as much candy as she could in her mouth. Then gag and spit it out in the trash can and do it all over again! haha! she was so cute!
baby Jackson! he's such a doll! so happy and content! He kept doing this push up position and can't figure out how to move forward but manages to scoot backwards. LoL! I loved this little chubby snuggle bug!

Luke and Lilly chatting it up at the tree
Boy cousins!
Matt, Ricky, baby Jackson, Caleb, Bret & Luke

Lilly was so funny! she entertained us with her heart sunglasses

We had so much fun visiting family! Thank you Cheryl for all your hard work so we could have fun decorating such nice ginger bread houses! I love my family and miss them lots!

Luke's Bday With Friends

Had a small bday party for Luke. We invited a couple of friends and neighbors. Luke loved it and felt very special :)

Singing to him. Happy boy :)yummy cake n icecream
presents timecool toy! silly Jessica